[snips] On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:06:25AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Unfortunately, MGT is dead upstream and is scheduled for removal from > > Debian. > > that would be a shame. gnome terminal (GT) just isn't as good as > multi-gnome-terminal (MGT). > > - it's noticably slower than MGT, noticable even in delays when > you are typing.
Are you running GNOME ? I also noticed that VTE, the widget it's using is a bit slower than zvt, the widget used by m-g-t but that's with rendering not typing. > with MGT, i can easily fit a 132x75 terminal onto my 21" CRT monitor > (between the top and bottom gnome panels), with quite readable text, > and with informative tab titles (and room to spare even with 19 tabs > in the window). Good eyes you have :-) > > I'd have loved to fix that but I don't feel like fixing it if it'll > > be removed from Debian > > like any other package, MGT will only be removed from debian if nobody > maintains it. Gtk 1.x will be removed. It's a release goal for lenny. That's why all packages depending on it has to be upgraded to gtk 2.x or removed. For m-g-t, It's been already removed. I don't mind trying to port it but I can't do it alone. I'll need help. Are you interested in joining efforts ? I think I know someone else who can join. Let's take this discussion off list if you really feel like joining. > i only noticed this bug report because MGT depends on liborbit0 which is > being replaced in unstable with liborbit0ldbl (thus forcing removal of > MGT if i let it upgrade).....and i can't even find the source package > for MGT 1.6.2-13.1 so i can recompile it myself against the libs in > unstable. Because it's been removed already. I'm using testing, that's why I didn't hit this. The 3 solutions I can see are: 1) Port it, I need help. 2) Maintain an unofficial repository with gtk 1.x, Hard work but not a lot once it's up. Problem is we will be maintaining a lot of packages unmaintained upstream. 3) Write an alternative. I started with this: http://home.foolab.org/svn/projects/tabterm/trunk/ Spaghetti code, missing a lot of features, unlikely to see a release. Please feel free to email me privately and let's see. Cheers, -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org
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